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Branchville, Texas

Coordinates: 30°53′4″N 96°45′50″W / 30.88444°N 96.76389°W / 30.88444; -96.76389
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Branchville, Texas
Branchville is located in Texas
Branchville
Branchville
Branchville is located in the United States
Branchville
Branchville
Coordinates: 30°53′4″N 96°45′50″W / 30.88444°N 96.76389°W / 30.88444; -96.76389
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountyMilam
Elevation
305 ft (93 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)512 & 737
GNIS feature ID1379455[1]

Branchville is an unincorporated community located in Milam County, Texas, United States.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 200 in 2000.

Geography

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Branchville is located on Farm to Market Road 485, 13 mi (21 km) east of Cameron in eastern Milam County.[2]

Education

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Branchville had its own school in 1896. There was a school with one teacher and 30 White students and two one-teacher schools for 133 Black students in 1903. It had only two schools in the 1940s. They joined the Cameron Independent School District in the early 1970s.[2]

Notable people

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References

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  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Branchville, Texas
  2. ^ a b Branchville, TX from the Handbook of Texas Online
  3. ^ Lakeland Ledger, Dec 29, 1982, Arthur Bryant, barbeque king (Obit.) Retrieved May 2012
  4. ^ Negro kills 8 with a short handled axe, The Newark Advocate (July 3, 1914)
    Kills eight for revenge, The New York Times (July 4, 1914)
    – Kills eight with an ax, The Washington Post (July 4, 1914)
    – Negro kills 8 negroes, The Daily Advocate (July 4, 1914)
    Four Negroes Dead; Five are Wounded; Slayer Escaped, Cameron Herald (July 9, 1914)
    – Two negroes killed and seven may die, The Galveston Daily News (July 4, 1914)
    – Five negroes were killed, Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (July 7, 1914)
    – Negro desperado is shot and killed, The Galveston Daily News (February 22, 1915)